Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8df7917a369a045c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-05-07 00:47:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 2e05b1f6cdd2d9abfbb9ed2db7ae6662 SHA-1: 6043a9f9b7d89642a779703f3181ec87916af8fb SHA-256: 8df7917a369a045cfe2902a379ab73eb980ec36137ee7330d611ee910a78b419
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cannot++fortnite+battle+royale+ps4 PDF link annotation
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4etl5mcjf2tburmc74qtsamrc/29724133685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087fc45c0cf5---32433119411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a97991a985---megagumonujaxogeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdaa7a6cfb317ade07b2913347a05aba/55189765146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/133de6f3e098140566fc2874a58d5344/53451234022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ee5f7c405---54942980449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/3274276460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/89579396600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nkhvpbeukrk8ngis2jgq11p7n6/60227877125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/782ed59e4ccb5acb2b4841a3dd6df48f/zipudotakumudumabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aenfviurcgqublp4psa39gag0/mulemidanejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eobliecky.sk/userfiles/file/89547799556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f81f60903b---27417176084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40e74d7c7240ec75dd3d681c7e57684c/23545358883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000118cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118CB 13584 bytes
SHA-256: c8f06851a04be287501e8402ed1043ac933597a481bd5c0699c1b48fee3f362c
font_01_sfnt_off000144bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x144BF 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 4c472143a9f6fa26ed7cef40e8d82ed79bbc1e516cd4c6e2d8f1377f5ef9807a
font_02_sfnt_off0001564d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1564D 11648 bytes
SHA-256: ef6ade2ce8aeaf0ab2568f24dbc1b8a8ffe908dc4cc78bbf6512d0fde6fecdc8